Laurence Fishburne is an American actor of the stage and screen.
He has received various award nominations including an Academy Award for Best Actor his role of Ike Turner in the film What's Love Got to Do with It (1993). He has also received a Golden Globe Award and an Independent Spirit Award nomination. For his work on television he has earned eleven Primetime Emmy Award nominations winning three times for TriBeCa (1993), Miss Evers' Boys (1997), and #FreeRayshawn (2017). For his work in film and television he has been nominated five times for Screen Actors Guild Awards for The Tuskegee Airmen (1996), Mystic River (2003), Bobby (2006), Thurgood (2011), and Black-ish (2017, 2018). For his work on stage he received two Tony Award nominations winning Best Featured Actor in a Play for August Wilson's Two Trains Running in 1992.
Major associations
Academy Award
Emmy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Independent Spirit Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Tony Awards
Miscellaneous awards
Saturn Awards
Acapulco Black Film Festival
BET Awards
Black Movie Awards
Black Reel Awards
MTV Movie Awards
NAACP Image Award
San Diego Film Festival
Theatre World Award
References
Fishburne, Laurence
